Interspecific population regulation and the stability of mutualism: Fruit abortion and density-dependent mortality of pollinating seed-eating insects

Article Abstract:

The nature of fruit abortion on the recruitment of moth population is empirically and theoretically examined. It is concluded that fruit abortion and resource-limited fruit set are effective means of regulating and limiting moth populations through density-dependent feedback on moth recruitment, but that in nature other density-dependent factors may also contribute to moth density and the stability of pollinating seed-eating mutualism.

United States, Science & research, Population regulation (Biology)

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Shift to mutualism in parasitic lineages of the fig/fig wasp interaction

Article Abstract:

Research indicates that figs colonized by internally ovipositing Diaziella species of wasps always produce seeds, and that these wasps transport more pollen when emerging from natal figs than do species who do not colonize figs.

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Unbeatable strategy, constraint and coevolution, or how to resolve evolutionary conflicts: the case of the fig/wasp mutualism

Article Abstract:

Research indicates that fig ovary quality varies as a wasp pollinator development substrate depending on the ovary's fig inflorescence location. This finding may explain the stability of the fig/wasp mutualistic relationship.

Diseases and pests, Plant parasites

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